I blame these people:

Votefortheworst.com was started in 2004 to support voting for the entertaining contestants who the producers would hate to see win on American Idol. Why do we do it? During the initial auditions, the producers of Idol only let certain people through. Many good people are turned away and many bad singers are kept around to see Simon, Paula, and Randy so that America will be entertained.

Now why do the producers do this? It’s simple: American Idol is not about singing at all, it’s about making good reality TV and enjoying the cheesy, guilty pleasure of watching bad singing. We agree that a fish out of water is entertaining, and we want to acknowledge this fact by encouraging people to make an even funnier show by helping the amusing antagonists stick around. VFTW sees keeping these contestants around as a golden opportunity to make a funnier show.

The site claims to have had ’successes’ in the past such as John Stevens, Scott Savol, Kevin Covais, Kellie Pickler, and Taylor Hicks.

Not surprisingly, they’re encouraging votes for Sanjaya. So next week, when we have to hear him murder yet another song, blame those folks… and all the teeny-bopper girls who’re just hoping he’ll start sharing the secret to getting Shirley Temple’s hair.